NEW SHORTS: Show Me Your Scars

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15:00 Sat 20 Jan 2018

ICA

We’re a generation with the blues. Heartbreak and homelessness, depression and dead-end towns, the ennui of the everyday - but what doesn’t kill us can only make us stronger. Right? These powerful shorts tackle our endemic melancholia, giving us complex characters baring all and attempting to take back control. 92 mins

An abstract portrait of a recently redundant contractor in the declining Scottish oil industry. Not Required Back presents a personal, fragmented relationship set to the crumbling and obtuse oil industry in North East Scotland.

How would you cope if you could only see your son from behind a screen? Closed Visit is a fictional animation based on the real experiences of British single fathers. Using the messages of single fathers on internet forums and both the director’s own experiences of being a single parent child, this animation explores isolation, separation and loss.

Set in 1980 Brixton South London, a mixed raced teenager who grew up in a children's home goes in search for his birth mother. Based on the novel 'Brixton Rock' by Alex Wheatle, the film highlights the struggles of children in 1970's care system, identity and the consequences of truth and lies.